This is another variety episode (like last week’s).

And here are the three main topics we yak about.

There was a fourth but it was just thrown in throughout the whole ep: verbal tiks.

Re-purposing Rose Petals from Valentine’s Day

• we’re preserving/drying rose petals

• how fun and rich it is, to get more than just one use out of them (especially in this age of single-use, disposable stuff)

• conventional oven, microwave oven, and open-air methods of drying rose petals

• r-r-r-roses!

“Balooby”

• in-house language

• what ‘cold’ means to different people, in different places

• living in harmony with the seasons

• what “balooby” feels like: sluggy, bloaty, blah, kinda gross

• Spring is coming! Let’s un-baloobify!

• what we’re going to do, to unbaloobify: workout plans

Soba

• buckwheat noodles

• non-gluten alternative to spaghetti noodles

• weird to eat spaghetti sauce with purple noodles, but we did it and it worked

• other wheat-free pasta options (that don’t work as well for us)